Trump as Unifier: Are Hillary Clinton and Neoconservatives Ready to Join Forces?

[ABFwife]

What a farce all of this is becoming. Even our Republican governor, Susana Martinez refuses to say anything about Trump. Mums the word so far. I mention her because of the rumors flying that she would be his running mate.

As Donald Trump is declared the presumptive Republican nominee for president, members of the neoconservative establishment, disgusted by the prospect of Trump in the White House, appear to be heading into the welcoming arms of someone more sympathetic to their imperial worldview: Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

With Trump at the head of the GOP ticket, Schmidt predicted on Chris Matthews' show earlier this week, "You're going to see a concerted and organized effort by the Hillary Clinton campaign to go after senior members of the Republican foreign policy establishment — big names. I'm not trying to put a partisan imprint on David Petraeus. But names like Petraeus, retired General Odierno, Colin Powell, Brent Scowcroft. Men and women who served in senior positions, in national security positions, in Republican administrations. The Clinton campaign's going to go after them. They're going to go after them forcefully."

On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign at least hinted at this approach by posting a list of people it described as "prominent activists, journalists and elected officials" in the Republican Party who have decided to reject Trump, quoting some who explicitly said they would vote for Clinton if she ends up as the Democratic nominee. A verbatim sampling from the list (which was further updated by the campaign on Thursday) follows:

Trump as Unifier: Are Hillary Clinton and Neoconservatives Ready to Join Forces? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

[crazy]

Trump will bring most of them together,even saying he will put up a billion dollars of his own money to run his campaign HIS way.. He doesn't want to be a politician with puppet strings to Corporate America unlike Hillary Clinton..